Senator Mitt Romney (UT) is perhaps the only Republican member of Congress who has openly marched with protestors during these last two weeks of unrest. He is also reportedly the only Republican Senator who has declared “black lives matter.”
Black Lives Matter. pic.twitter.com/JpXUFlxH2J
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) June 7, 2020
Interestingly enough, Donald Trump took Romney’s participation in this DC protest as a personal jab against him. This was his sarcastic reaction.
Tremendous sincerity, what a guy. Hard to believe, with this kind of political talent, his numbers would “tank” so badly in Utah! https://t.co/KqHsHmSRKo
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 8, 2020
Trump wants to pretend he cares, both about peaceful protesters and racial strife.
Trump ridicules and insults @MittRomney for marching with/supporting peaceful protesters calling for an end to racial discrimination.
Trump just can't stop revealing who he really is.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 8, 2020
When the video appeared on Twitter late yesterday afternoon, it drew a torrent of predictable reactions. Trumpites sneered and called him a loser. Leftists sneered and called him a poser. A small but vocal cheering section praised him for marching. And several people speculated—as they always do—that the 73-year-old senator was laying the groundwork for another presidential bid.
In reality, Romney’s path to yesterday’s Black Lives Matter protest began half a century earlier with his father—a man whose legacy has long shaped, and sometimes haunted, his son.
This is my father, George Romney, participating in a Civil Rights march in the Detroit suburbs during the late 1960s—“Force alone will not eliminate riots,” he said. “We must eliminate the problems from which they stem.” pic.twitter.com/SzrcAyfPD8
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) June 6, 2020
